A Gallatin Gateway woman was sentenced in federal court Friday to 33 months in prison and three years probation after pleading guilty to credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Donald Malloy also ordered Erin Lee Stewart, 50, to pay $7,185 in restitution to her victims. According to statements…
P2P networks a treasure trove of leaked health care data, study finds
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: Nearly eight months after new rules were enacted requiring stronger protection of health care information, organizations are still leaking such data on file-sharing networks, a study by Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business has found. In a research paper to be presented at an IEEE security symposium Tuesday, a Dartmouth College professor…
Employee creates Smucker data exposure jam
When an employee of J.M. Smucker needed assistance on a human resources project, the employee e-mailed the data to a relative who’s a computer programmer for help. Unfortunately, although the programmer’s server is reportedly a secure server, the programmer is not an employee of Smucker’s. Smucker discovered the breach itself through its own monitoring, and…
Data stolen from NADRA office in Karachi
From the that’s-all-they-wrote dept: LAHORE: Unidentified men broke into the premises of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) office at the Shah Faisal Colony in Karachi and stole some very important data, a private television channel reported on Monday. According to the channel, the thieves had sneaked into the NADRA office through a window…
Stolen server contains medical info on 40,000 eye patients
OCR added a few more breaches to its list. Two were covered earlier today on PHIprivacy.net, but the third one, added later in the day, affected 40,000 people: Silicon Valley Eyecare Optometry and Contact Lenses State: California Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 40,000 Date of Breach: 4/02/10 Type of Breach: Theft Location of Breached Information:…
DIA official says privacy, security different for cloud
Stephen Bell reports: The government may have to make sacrifices in such treasured concepts as privacy and sovereignty, so that public sector organisations can take advantage of the “convenience” of the cloud, says a Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) project manager. Adam Stapleton is managing a project for DIA’s Government Technology Services (GTS) arm, to…